Past and Present Exhibitions

A detail of Dale Nichols' painting "Platte Valley Summer," which shows a red barn silhouetted from far away against a big blue sky mostly covered with lovely, puffy clouds.

Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism

A detail of John Wesley Hardrick's painting "Going Fishing," from the museum's collection. Hardrick paints a young Black boy with a fishing rod over his camera, facing the viewer with a steady gaze.

Images of the Midwest from the Schoen Collection and the Georgia Museum of Art

A close-up view of a platter painted by the Lycett China company, with a black background on the platter covered with decorative painting in gold of vines and leaves and, in the center, a bunch of flowers including peonies and poppies.

Lycett China

A still from Bill Viola's video work "The Reflecting Pool," which shows a green pool in the woods, with no people. It has lines on it like an old VHS video.

Bill Viola: Collected Work, 1977–80

A detail from Clare Leighton's woodcut "Grape Harvesters," showing a group of people harvesting grapes, rendered in black and white

Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand: The Graphic Work of Clare Leighton

A detail from Elizabeth "Libby" Bailey's holiday woodcut "Il Buon Regalo," featuring Mary and Joseph presenting the infant Jesus to the three wise men.

Buon Natale: Holiday Prints by Elizabeth Bailey

A detail of Edmund Lewandowski's painting "Gas Company," which focuses on a series of snaking pipes on the exterior of an industrial building

Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond

A detail from Kokusai's famous print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," which shows a huge wave breaking

Fleeting Pleasures: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art

An artist's book featuring a print of a ship in black and white, bound in red

Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books

A detail of a Ritz-Craft Trailer poster made by Hatch Show Print, with the trailer in a reddish orange and the words Ritz-Craft in white on a dark blue sky above.

American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print

A detail of Pierre Daura's painting "The Big Barn at Tuckaway," which shows the titular barn, painted in shades of brown and gray, looming above the autumn landscape.

Introduction to the Centers

A detail of Lamar Dodd's painting "Apollo 16 from Vehicle Assembly Building," a dark image that shows the rocket appearing out of the dark at the left and what almost appear to be abstract triangles at right.

Lamar Dodd: Paintings and Drawings